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Updates to Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance for vSphere 7.0 Update 3

10.05.2021 by William Lam // 16 Comments

✔️Corrected vSphere 7.0 Update 3 Release Note URLs

🔸vCenter:https://t.co/pQxSj5ltxk

🔹ESXihttps://t.co/qrKrtmo87c https://t.co/oYMMWVWmWy

— William Lam (@lamw.bsky.social | @*protected email*) (@lamw) October 5, 2021

vSphere 7.0 Update 3 officially GA'ed this morning and I am happy to share a quick that my Nested ESXi Virtual Appliance (OVA and Content Library) has also been updated to support the latest release. In addition, I have also published an update to the ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Virtual Appliance as there was an issue that prevented it from working with the latest VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x release.

Nested ESXi OVA:

  • ESXi 7.0 Update 2a Virtual Appliance
  • ESXi 7.0 Update 3 Virtual Appliance

Nested ESXi Content Library:

  • https://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/lib.json

For prior ESXi versions, you can check out http://vmwa.re/nestedesxi

Categories // Automation, ESXi, Nested Virtualization, vSphere 7.0 Tags // Nested ESXi, nested virtualization, vSphere 7.0 Update 2a, vSphere 7.0 Update 3

Stage Only & Stage and Install buttons disabled when updating to vSphere 7.0 Update 2a 

04.29.2021 by William Lam // 6 Comments

vSphere 7.0 Update 2a was just released yesterday and it introduces the highly anticipated vSphere Virtual Machine Service which is part of the vSphere with Tanzu solution. Customers will now be able to get the exact same Kubernetes-native provisioning and management experience for deploying Virtual Machine based workloads along side their Kubernetes-based applications.

I was definitely interested in checking out this new feature and quickly navigated to my VCSA to start the upgrade and to my surprise, I noticed that both the Stage Only and Stage and Install buttons were disabled (grayed out) and preventing me from updating to the latest release!


I had filed an issue internally and after some troubleshooting, it looks like this may have been remnants caused by the previous Exception occurred in install precheck phase issue, which I had ran into during the update to 7.0 Update 2. Although I was initially pointed by Engineering to VMware KB 83145, it did not resolve the issue and I ran into a couple more errors like "Previous patching unsuccessful" and "Downloading RPM ...." messages within the VAMI UI as shown in the screenshots below

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Categories // vSphere 7.0 Tags // vSphere 7.0 Update 2a

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